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The View from the Wall

 

The View from the Great Wall of China
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fukagawa/110114242/

 

http://juliebalen.weebly.com/2/post/2013/01/musing-out-loud-reading-between-rhizomic-roots.html

I very much enjoyed the above post by Julie Balen on rhizomic learning, connections, complexity.  She concludes her post with the following question:

Share you thoughts about connected learning and where it might take us, and what our responses  might be when something gets in our way.

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Drinking from the River

Urumbamba River, Peru

I took this photo of the Urumbamba River in Machu Picchu, Peru last year.

(To my regular blog readers, you may wish to skip to the bottom first to get some context for this post)

On tonight’s etMOOC Twitter chat, I expressed concern about being able to “keep up” with all the parts of etMOOC.…

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Connected Learning: Getting Beyond Technological Determinism

Life lately has felt like one of those dreams where you’re in a cab with your third-grade teacher on the way to a conference presentation you forgot to prepare for and then suddenly the cab morphs into a giant recycling plant and everything is spinning and…

What?…

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GridType: Connecting creative students and their work online [THESIS]

Having been neck-deep in my #ETMOOC experience these last few weeks, I have decided to share some progress that I have been making on my graduate thesis project. Over a year in the works, I have been aligning my thesis with courses taken during my time at the University of Boston, studying Instructional Design (M.Ed).…

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Playing with Prezi – The Plan for Learning

The Learning Plan for my EDCI 515 course through UVic Masters of Ed.  I will credit and thank S. Johnson for recognizing the researcher trait and the sharing tendency in me and inviting me on this journey with her.

With some help from Valerie Irvine and the #etmooc Blackboard session and some really great blogposts from Howard RheingoldRobin Good, and Beth Kanter, I feel like I’m on my way.…

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Developing Resiliency for Complexity

Over the years I have been variously complimented for the level of differentiation/ freedom/choice in my classroom, or condemned for the chaos, lack of structure, and uncertainty that seems to rule.  Often on the same day, sometimes by the same people.  

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IN-BOX – how interwebs will tear us apart

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I decided to be lazy today and use my EDC MOOC brain to process the homework. At least some of it. OK – just one tiny little movie. Inbox.

It seems to have made the most impression on the collective – trending today on discussion forums at least.…

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syndicating 5358 posts from 517 #etmooc blogs